Brain Shaman

Lincoln Stoller is a psychotherapist, physicist, and author of books including The Learning Project, Becoming Lucid, and Operating Manual for Enlightenment.

In this episode, we discuss living with honesty, courage, and commitment, and why meaningful growth often means moving beyond conformity and reward-driven paths. Lincoln shares perspectives on taking action without guarantees, embracing exploration for its own sake, and giving yourself space to get lost while remaining calm. We explore creativity, lucid awareness in dreams and daily life, doing things you’re not good at, finding mentors, breaking the rules, exploring beyond the traditional boundaries of education and career, and not focusing on profit or reward. The conversation centers on expanding awareness, stepping out of limiting boxes and choosing a path guided by curiosity, authenticity, and adventure.

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Website: mindstrengthbalance.com
Books: The Learning Project | Becoming Lucid | The Path to Sleep, Exercises for an Ancient Skill | Operating Manual for Enlightenment | COVID-19 | Sensations Thoughts and Emotions
Podcast: Stream of Subconsciousness
Facebook: @lincolnstoller
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lincolnstoller

Resources

Books: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

TV Series: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

People: Albert Einstein, Douglas Adams, Franz Kafka, Isaac Newton, Joey Krebs, John Cage, Louis Pasteur, Martin Luther King Jr., Stephen Hawking, Sydney Coleman, Theodore Maiman, Thomas Edison, Vincent van Gogh

Jacob Hill is the founder and CEO of Offploy, a UK-based social enterprise he started in prison in 2016 to help people with criminal convictions find employment. In this episode, we discuss crime, what causes it, and how rethinking our labels and assumptions about criminals can create opportunity, meaningful work, and help reduce crime. 

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jacobrohill
Website: offploy.org 

Resources

Books

• Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

People

• Daniel Priestley
• Richard Branson
• Oliver Burkeman
• Sam Arbesman
• Viktor Frankl

TV Shows & Movies

• Breaking Bad
• Narcos
• Orange is the New Black 
• Prison Break
• Shawshank Redemption

Lisa Riegel is the author of NeuroWell and CEO of the Educational Partnerships Institute, helping schools design brain-based classrooms that support how students learn and thrive. In this episode, we discuss how to use neuroscience to create better learning environments and outcomes for today’s world.

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Website: lisariegel.com | epinstitute.net
Books: NeuroWell  |  Aspirations to Operations  |  Stop Doing What Doesn’t Work
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lisariegel

Resources

Books

• To Kill a Mockingbird

People

• Bruce Perry
• Tristan Harris

Podcasts

• Your Undivided Attention

Documentaries

• The Social Dilemma

TV Shows

• The Love Boat
• Family Ties
• Little House on the Prairie
• Survivor
• The Real Housewives 

Joelle Kaufman is a cancer survivor and the author of Crushing the Cancer Curveball. In this episode, she shares insights from her own cancer journey and the mindset shifts and practical steps we can take to prepare for and navigate a cancer diagnosis and other curveballs in life. 

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Website: joellekaufman.com
Book: Crushing the Cancer Curveball
Podcast: Kicking Cancer's Ass
Instagram: @kickingcancers.ass
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joellekaufman

Resources

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 

We’re back with Amy Weintraub, yoga therapist, author, and founder of LifeForce Yoga. In this episode, we learn about and practice some simple yet powerful yoga exercises focused on the hands and breath to shift your energy, mood, and perception. 

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Website: amyweintraub.com
Books: Yoga for Depression  ·  Yoga Skills for Therapists  ·  Temple Dancer
Card Deck: Yoga for Your Mood
YouTube: @AmyWeintraubAuthor
Instagram: @amylifeforceyoga
Facebook: @AmyEWeintraub

Upcoming Events

LIFEFORCE YOGA & INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
New Tools To Bring Balance To Your Life
August 9-14, 2026
A Summer Retreat at Kripalu.

https://amyweintraub.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-ifs-new-tools-to-bring-balance-to-your-life-3/

Resources

Books

• Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
• Lifting Depression by Kelly Lambert

People

• Andrew Huberman
• Andrew Weil
• Diane Poole Heller
• Kelly Lambert
• Krishna Das
• Laura Schmidt
• Richard Miller
• Stephen Porges
• T.S. Eliot

We’re back for round 2 with Alan Lazaros, exploring how to find your authentic self and path to success through curiosity, contemplation, and honest reflection. We talk about how to learn, think, and grow into your highest potential.

Connect and Learn More

Website: nextleveluniverse.com
Podcasts: Next Level University  ·  The Conscious Couples Podcast
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanlazarosllc
Instagram: @alazaros88   

Resources

Books

• Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Decoding Greatness by Ron Friedman
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• Making Numbers Count by Chip Heath and Karla Starr
• Neurodiscipline by Peter Hollins
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
• The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler
• The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
• Willpower by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney

Movies

• Home Alone
• Free Willy

People

• Annie Duke
• Brian Tracy
• Gregory McKeown
• Joe Rogan
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Roy F. Baumeister
• Shaquille O'Neal
• Simon Sinek
• Steven Kotler
• Steven Pinker
• Tim Ferriss

Jules Acton is a British environmentalist, author of Oaklore, and ambassador for the Woodland Trust. In this episode, we explore the enchanting world of oak trees, from the tiny creatures that live in them to the interconnected life around them, and how these trees weave through human history, culture, and life.

Connect and Learn More 

Book: Oaklore
Website: julesacton.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jules-acton-574b0522
Instagram: @julieblowfish

Resources

Books

• Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Organizations & Projects

• Woodland Trust
• Nature's Calendar (by the Woodland Trust)

Kisha Reynolds is a hypnotherapist and coach who works with body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs), including hair pulling, nail biting, and skin picking. This episode explores BFRBs and how hypnotherapy can help. 

Connect and Learn More

• Website: 321deepsleep.com
• Facebook: @3-2-1-DEEP-SLEEP-Kisha-Reynolds-CHt-61553394489335

Resources

• Christina Pearson
• The TLC Foundation for BFRBs

Dmitri Mugianis is a psychedelic practitioner, musician, and space creator. In this episode, we explore addiction, psychedelics, music, culture, modernity, space, healing, community, and religion, topped off with some coffee, cigars, and Harlem fried chicken. 

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Websites: dimitrimugianis.com  ·  cardea.net

Instagram: @dimitrimugianis

Resources

Books: How to Change Your Mind, Virtue Hoarders

People: Allen Ginsberg, Alexandre Tannous, Andrew Huberman, Catherine Liu, Deacon Seraphim, Federico Fellini, Glenn Johnson, Herbert Hunkie, Joe Rogan, Ingmar Bergman, John Sinclair, Lou Reed, Martin Buber, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Pollan, Michel Foucault, Michel Negroponte, Peter Attia, Pier Pablo Pasolini, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Randy Polumbo, Richie Ogulnick, Robert F. Kennedy, Ross Ellenhorn, Sara Glatt, Walter Cronkite

Films: Frostbiter, I’m Dangerous with Love

Musicians: Fela Kuti, Leisure Class, MC5, Sun Ra, The Stooges , The Velvet Underground

Podcasts: Huberman Lab, This American Life, The Peter Attia Drive, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Symbolic World

Amy Weintraub is a yoga therapist, author, and founder of LifeForce Yoga, a mood regulation protocol supporting those with anxiety, depression, and PTSD. She is the author of Yoga for Depression, Yoga Skills for Therapists, and Temple Dancer, and the creator of the Yoga for Your Mood card deck. 

In this episode, we discuss the neuroscience, philosophy, and practice of yoga, including three guided, embodied exercises using breath, hands, imagery, and more to help regulate your mood and feel more connected, grounded, and alive.

Connect and Learn More

Website: amyweintraub.com
Books: Yoga for Depression  ·  Yoga Skills for Therapists  ·  Temple Dancer
Card Deck: Yoga for Your Mood
YouTube: @AmyWeintraubAuthor
Instagram: @amylifeforceyoga
Facebook: @AmyEWeintraub

Upcoming Events

LIFEFORCE YOGA & IFS Virtual Workshop
A Synergistic Integration to Soothe, Restore and Heal
Wednesday June 17 | 5:00-7:30pm MT

https://amyweintraub.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-and-ifs-internal-family-systems-virtual-workshop/

LIFEFORCE YOGA & INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS
New Tools To Bring Balance To Your Life
August 9-14, 2026
A Summer Retreat at Kripalu.

https://amyweintraub.com/event/lifeforce-yoga-ifs-new-tools-to-bring-balance-to-your-life-3/

Resources

Books

• The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson

People

• Erica Sharpe
• Henry David Thoreau
• Herbert Benson
• Jake Panasevich
• John Keats
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Richard C. Schwartz
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Stephen Porges
• William Wordsworth

TV Shows

• Mad Men